Anxiety & Depression

Your Window of Tolerance

When anxiety runs high, your body won’t come down.

When depression pulls low, you can’t get moving.

As different as they feel, underneath they’re the same thing: one nervous system, two opposite directions, both outside the range where you feel like yourself.

That range has a name: the window of tolerance. It’s the settled middle where you can think clearly, feel without being pulled under, be present with the people you love, and feel steady and in control of your own day.

Maybe that feels far away right now. Maybe you’re not sure you’ve ever been there.

The window is yours to claim. It can widen, and you can find your way back inside it.

This Isn’t You Failing to Cope

What you’re living with isn’t just anxious thoughts or heavy days you should be able to snap out of.

It’s your nervous system, stuck on high alert or powered all the way down, still waiting to learn it’s safe to settle.

I’m Trish, and that’s exactly what I help with.

This Got Underway Before You Had a Say

A young nervous system learns to settle by being near someone calm. That’s co-regulation. If no one steady was there, your body never learned how.

So, it adapted. Keyed up and ready or powered down and quiet, it figured out whatever got you through. It was a smart adaptation then. The problem is: it’s still running now.

You were a child when this took shape. You didn’t choose it, and it was never yours to fix.

But a nervous system that learned this can learn something else. That’s what we do together in Brainspotting therapy.

Relieving the Guard

Brainspotting reaches the part of you still standing guard and helps it let go.

This allows your body to come back to the zone where your nervous system runs steady, where you can think, feel, and handle what comes without getting swept up or shut down.

When that happens, you have the controls again: you work with what you feel instead of it running you.

Brainspotting is gentle, safe, and I’ll be with you the whole way.

Here’s How it Works

The alarm isn’t in your thoughts. It’s deeper, in the part of the brain that runs safety and survival.

Your eyes are how we reach it.

In the room, it’s simple. Where you look affects how you feel, so we find the spot in your field of vision where the feeling is the strongest, and we stay with it.

From there, we stay with the old alarm still running under it. The one that keeps your body keyed up or shut down, until it starts to quiet.

As that happens, your entire system settles.

Brainspotting holds room for more than the alarm. The part of you that stays on guard, the part that shuts down, even the young you it all started with, all of this can come into our sessions and be met right there, at your pace.

You can feel more, not less, and still be okay.

You show up, follow the steps, and I’m right here with you all the way through.

What Starts to Shift

What that looks like is different for everyone.

Early on, it’s often just relief, which is the first sign that something long stuck is finally moving.

You find yourself able to sleep without your mind racing. You sit through a meal or a quiet evening without waiting for something to go wrong.

The heaviness lifts enough that you want to live your day again.

Something hard moves through you instead of taking you under.

You’re with the people you love and actually there for it.

These shifts can show up in many ways. Settling becomes something you can do. This has many positive ripples across your life.